Around the area this weekend, The Waco Brothers play The Hideout, Hell in a Handbag has a holiday show and it’s the final week for this year’s live staging of “It’s a Wonderful ...

These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten. Musically, they’re all over the map ...

Curating “The Bottle Tapes” gave Ken Vandermark and John Corbett an opportunity to revisit the Empty Bottle’s Jazz & Improvised Music Series.

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025.

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” Transitions music festival and Trans-Siberian Orchestra are among the highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday he won't veto an alternative budget plan passed by City Council over the ...

Peter Criss, Kiss' original drummer and 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is having a quite a month. On Dec. 7 he ...

An iconic rock band is sharing an unreleased song from 1974. Queen guitarist Brian May unveiled the band’s lost tune “Not for ...

The Zydeco Legacy of Clifton Chenier is finally preserved in a new set of digital releases made possible by Smithsonian Folkways.